I should have added that none of the above applies to Climate Science, since of it does make predictions, just like metereologists do for weather instead of climate. In that sense my reply was a bit pointless.
Although that's a legitimate point of view in the sense of being internally consistent, it excludes a large number of scientific investigations. According to your definition, neither forensic pathologists nor historians would do science or be scientists. Fair enough, so they are doing science-2 and nothing is lost, because everybody already agrees that primarily historic, explaining disciplines are different from physics and chemistry. Obviously, mathematics is also not science according to your definition. Well, Alfred Nobel thought so, too, but in the end you're just arguing about terminology, which is pointless.
First of all, one man's racism is not another's differing viewpoint. Racism is really just racism, it's a pretty well-defined notion. Nobody is expected to or even should be tolerant towards intolerant people. Read Sir Karl Poppers "The Open Society and Its Enemies", that might enlighten you.
Second and way more importantly, this is not about racism or political opinions, this is about getting rid of obvious off-topic troll posts. This thread is not about whether Hillary Clinton is a member of the KKK, and the people who post this useless drivel can just go fuck off - permban them, shadow-ban them, delete their posts. I'm personally fine leaving all kinds of KKK posts in a thread about "Hillary Clinton is a member of KKK".
These off-topic posts are designed to derail discussions. Ban those assholes, it's as simple as that.
Sorry, I don't buy this. I'm following online discussions of controversial topics for more than 20 years now, and I cannot recall many instances where these would really and genuinely be enlightening or beneficial to anyone. This is extremely rare. The best thing you can get from such discussions is unreliable, superficial knowledge by testimony that you have to check manually with other sources anyway before you can trust it. In other words, I don't think that online forums are good for discussing controversial topics. Even the local pub fares better in terms of civility, reasonableness, politeness and overall friendliness, listening to each other, rational exchange of standpoints and ideas, constructive dialogue, etc.
On Usenet we used killfiles, they were a somewhat of a solution to keep the crackpots and conspiracy theorists at a distance, though not ideal. Centralized forums like Slashdot don't want to empower users, so they don't give them the same functionality.
In my opinion, civil public online discourse with anonymity or pseudonymity is only possible with a combination of heavy moderation, temporary IP banning, and shadow-banning. It has nothing to do with left or right or freedom of speech or anything like that, it's just a matter of common sense and extensive experience that without moderation and bans the number of toxic shitposters will raise above a critical threshold. Trolls and crackpots, whether they do it for fun or because they have mental problems or political agendas, have way more time at hand than reasonable people. This is a fact of life.
Forums with less moderation work fine in smaller communities oriented towards common goals. But even these usually need quite drastic measures against hostile takeovers at hand - see IRC wars, etc.
Echo chambers: These exist, but people who are susceptible to becoming seriously influenced in their life by their online participation in a "circle jerk echo chamber" have much more of a problem than just these echo chambers. Most people do not have this problem. Nowadays there is 0 problem of getting good information on practically anything. On the contrary, we're swamped in insanely accurate and fast news, which leads to a distorted negative perception of reality. Echo chambers are only a problem for certain personalities who would find their echo chamber in real life if they don't find it online.
I've been on Slashdot under many different handles almost since its inception, and I would say that in the past 5 years or so it has failed. Why? Probably just because more people are online, and you only get along with most people personally, not by "discussing controversial topics" but by dealing with them in daily interactions. There are still forums that work, reddit is not bad in fact, and I spend more time on another forum that I do not want to mention in order not to get trolls any ideas.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought that part of the NSA's obligations is only to protect US infrastructure vital to national security and DoD It systems, not private infrastructure, individual citizens' home networks or companies in general. They probably are allowed to inform and advise larger corporations of threats but that's about it. Their main role is SIGINT.
So yes, of course they will hoard and weaponize exploits. In case of these routers, the above AC is right, that could easily be an NSA exploit. It depends on where these routers are primarily used and where the compromised routers were located.
So you don't think it should a picture of President Donald Trump since he is the leader of the world's most powerful country and therefore represents humanity best?
No, the problem is not "IP" itself but the fact that current "IP" law is uniquely designed to aid large corporations and harm the actual artists. The power relation between artist and large publishers are totally asymmetric. The fix: Bind copyright to the artists for 25 years, after which all works enter the public domain, and make sure that contract law is adjusted so that the artists can cancel any contract about their creation, i.e., they can temporarily transfer their creations to companies for marketing and monetization, but it is not possible to buy the copyright to some artwork and the artist can always cancel the contract and set up a new contract with another publisher.
That would be a pretty hefty change of contract law but it would solve the problem. The problem is that artists are forced to enter contracts that are not in their own interest (e.g. "360 contracts" in record industry), because they are already at the lowest end of the food chain. There is nothing wrong with protecting original artwork for 15 or 25 years. The problem is that right now the whole system is rigged 100% towards large corporations who exploit both artists and customers.
Patreon and alternative distribution channels have shown that people are perfectly willing to pay artists for their work. They just don't want to give their money to Time Warner so some fat old producer can literally fuck an aspiring new artist in his mansion before she gets a job.
I have to agree with that, Org Mode is the best Todo manager. Put it on a shared/synced volume for web access, but you can also ssh in, which would be more secure.
Like the above poster, I'm assuming that the original poster is serious about it and has a genuine need for managing many Todo items.
Please don't feed the trolls! These off-topic AC posts are obviously designed to derange other debates with fruitless US politics. There will be plenty of time in the future to discuss these kind of topics in threads about them.
Of course, I'm not the first one. I'm a Science Fiction fan since I was seven years old and read several invasion stories as a preparation before I wrote my own account of how it could happen.:)
Well, not only about hacking. An invasion by hostile aliens only takes 3 days because of their superior electronic warfare capabilities. Shameless self-slashvertising for anyone who is interested and can read German (sorry, no English!): Invasion der Ausserirdischen in Berlin-Mitte.
Well, I've read plenty of military fiction that will sufficiently stupid for the GP. I specifically recommend Out of the Dark by David Weber, because it combines military fiction with vampire novels.
Don't be stupid, the media want to make money and sell their news. Besides, even if the media manipulated video for propaganda use, then having tens of thousands of additional lunatics manipulate videos in their mom's basement won't do any good either.
It's not hard to block scripts and nobody forces me to visit their website. I was merely interested in the legal situation in the case when the mining is done without explicit consent, since using someone else's resources for profit without consent seems legally problematic. With explicit consent there shouldn't be much of a problem.
First, an ad blocker can and will block such scripts, too. Second, they are using someone else's resources without their consent. Is this legal? Or wire fraud?
If it didn't influence shit then you and the rest of the US of A wouldn't talk about it all the time, like e.g. now here. According to the reports they wanted to divide your nation. Well, if that was their goal then they have been tremendously successful (judging from the posts on/.)
I haven't noticed this behavior yet and don't use any apps on my new machine. (Since it's new, it comes with Win 10. Of course, I'm using Linux for work.)
Do the apps run in the background if I never open them and use Classic menu? Do they show notifications if I turn notifications off?
The discussion in this subthread was not about the article but about adopting DST for the whole year. Read the context before hitting the reply button.
No comprehension problems here, but I have to admit you and a few others don't particularly shine with their intelligence and wittiness in this thread. Shifting the clock by one hour is really not rocket science. My employer won't change my work schedule because you say so, and neither does my girlfriend's employer or just about every other one you can imagine. Having more flexible work schedules is all fine if you actually have them. But no, child care and TV and radio and hospitals won't change all of their schedules because you or I think it's better.
Meanwhile, with DST people can enjoy longer sun in the evenings instead of sleeping while the sun shines an hour earlier in the morning.
Now if you personally prefer winter time, fine - just say so. I don't. I prefer to have longer sun in the evenings. Got it? Or do you still prefer to pretend to be stupid?
An extra hour of light in the morning before you get to work is useless to most people. They want to have an extra hour of sunlight after work. Life has also generally shifted from early morning hours to staying awake longer in the evenings. It's not unreasonable to assume that most people upon sincere reflection would prefer to have DST for the whole of the year, i.e., have their time zone shifted +1 and getting rid of DST.
The OP was an idiot in the sense of stubbornly insisting on a point instead of just admitting that he was mistaken, because he pointed out in a fairly smartass way the obvious fact that the hours on the clock are an arbitrary convention, thereby missing the whole point of DST, which is exactly that. The hours on the clock are an arbitrary binding convention, so if you want to change the relation of society as a whole to the daylight hours, then for Christ's sake adjust the clock rather than changing all time tables in all professions and all areas of life. What I hate about discussions like this is that so many people assume in them that the original inventors "didn't get it" while not really understanding what they're talking about themselves. Just check how many people in this thread erroneously believe that DST is winter time rather than summer time. True, it's debatable whether DST has fulfilled its original purpose of saving energy in light of the oil crisis, but at least the inventors of DST did understand the overall purpose of adjusting the clock - more than you or the OP, apparently. Sorry if that hurts your feelings.
Now regarding your other suggestion of flexible time tables for everyone in every profession and every area of life. It's a utopian and illusory idea and I personally believe the disadvantages would far outweigh the advantages, but in any case it has nothing to do with a discussion of DST.
Because spare time BEFORE you start your daily work is much the same as the spare time in daylight you get AFTER you've come home from work... well, maybe for you, but not for me.
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I should have added that none of the above applies to Climate Science, since of it does make predictions, just like metereologists do for weather instead of climate. In that sense my reply was a bit pointless.
Although that's a legitimate point of view in the sense of being internally consistent, it excludes a large number of scientific investigations. According to your definition, neither forensic pathologists nor historians would do science or be scientists. Fair enough, so they are doing science-2 and nothing is lost, because everybody already agrees that primarily historic, explaining disciplines are different from physics and chemistry. Obviously, mathematics is also not science according to your definition. Well, Alfred Nobel thought so, too, but in the end you're just arguing about terminology, which is pointless.
First of all, one man's racism is not another's differing viewpoint. Racism is really just racism, it's a pretty well-defined notion. Nobody is expected to or even should be tolerant towards intolerant people. Read Sir Karl Poppers "The Open Society and Its Enemies", that might enlighten you.
Second and way more importantly, this is not about racism or political opinions, this is about getting rid of obvious off-topic troll posts. This thread is not about whether Hillary Clinton is a member of the KKK, and the people who post this useless drivel can just go fuck off - permban them, shadow-ban them, delete their posts. I'm personally fine leaving all kinds of KKK posts in a thread about "Hillary Clinton is a member of KKK".
These off-topic posts are designed to derail discussions. Ban those assholes, it's as simple as that.
Sorry, I don't buy this. I'm following online discussions of controversial topics for more than 20 years now, and I cannot recall many instances where these would really and genuinely be enlightening or beneficial to anyone. This is extremely rare. The best thing you can get from such discussions is unreliable, superficial knowledge by testimony that you have to check manually with other sources anyway before you can trust it. In other words, I don't think that online forums are good for discussing controversial topics. Even the local pub fares better in terms of civility, reasonableness, politeness and overall friendliness, listening to each other, rational exchange of standpoints and ideas, constructive dialogue, etc.
On Usenet we used killfiles, they were a somewhat of a solution to keep the crackpots and conspiracy theorists at a distance, though not ideal. Centralized forums like Slashdot don't want to empower users, so they don't give them the same functionality.
In my opinion, civil public online discourse with anonymity or pseudonymity is only possible with a combination of heavy moderation, temporary IP banning, and shadow-banning. It has nothing to do with left or right or freedom of speech or anything like that, it's just a matter of common sense and extensive experience that without moderation and bans the number of toxic shitposters will raise above a critical threshold. Trolls and crackpots, whether they do it for fun or because they have mental problems or political agendas, have way more time at hand than reasonable people. This is a fact of life.
Forums with less moderation work fine in smaller communities oriented towards common goals. But even these usually need quite drastic measures against hostile takeovers at hand - see IRC wars, etc.
Echo chambers: These exist, but people who are susceptible to becoming seriously influenced in their life by their online participation in a "circle jerk echo chamber" have much more of a problem than just these echo chambers. Most people do not have this problem. Nowadays there is 0 problem of getting good information on practically anything. On the contrary, we're swamped in insanely accurate and fast news, which leads to a distorted negative perception of reality. Echo chambers are only a problem for certain personalities who would find their echo chamber in real life if they don't find it online.
I've been on Slashdot under many different handles almost since its inception, and I would say that in the past 5 years or so it has failed. Why? Probably just because more people are online, and you only get along with most people personally, not by "discussing controversial topics" but by dealing with them in daily interactions. There are still forums that work, reddit is not bad in fact, and I spend more time on another forum that I do not want to mention in order not to get trolls any ideas.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought that part of the NSA's obligations is only to protect US infrastructure vital to national security and DoD It systems, not private infrastructure, individual citizens' home networks or companies in general. They probably are allowed to inform and advise larger corporations of threats but that's about it. Their main role is SIGINT.
So yes, of course they will hoard and weaponize exploits. In case of these routers, the above AC is right, that could easily be an NSA exploit. It depends on where these routers are primarily used and where the compromised routers were located.
So you don't think it should a picture of President Donald Trump since he is the leader of the world's most powerful country and therefore represents humanity best?
No, the problem is not "IP" itself but the fact that current "IP" law is uniquely designed to aid large corporations and harm the actual artists. The power relation between artist and large publishers are totally asymmetric. The fix: Bind copyright to the artists for 25 years, after which all works enter the public domain, and make sure that contract law is adjusted so that the artists can cancel any contract about their creation, i.e., they can temporarily transfer their creations to companies for marketing and monetization, but it is not possible to buy the copyright to some artwork and the artist can always cancel the contract and set up a new contract with another publisher.
That would be a pretty hefty change of contract law but it would solve the problem. The problem is that artists are forced to enter contracts that are not in their own interest (e.g. "360 contracts" in record industry), because they are already at the lowest end of the food chain. There is nothing wrong with protecting original artwork for 15 or 25 years. The problem is that right now the whole system is rigged 100% towards large corporations who exploit both artists and customers.
Patreon and alternative distribution channels have shown that people are perfectly willing to pay artists for their work. They just don't want to give their money to Time Warner so some fat old producer can literally fuck an aspiring new artist in his mansion before she gets a job.
I have to agree with that, Org Mode is the best Todo manager. Put it on a shared/synced volume for web access, but you can also ssh in, which would be more secure.
Like the above poster, I'm assuming that the original poster is serious about it and has a genuine need for managing many Todo items.
Please don't feed the trolls! These off-topic AC posts are obviously designed to derange other debates with fruitless US politics. There will be plenty of time in the future to discuss these kind of topics in threads about them.
Of course, I'm not the first one. I'm a Science Fiction fan since I was seven years old and read several invasion stories as a preparation before I wrote my own account of how it could happen. :)
Well, not only about hacking. An invasion by hostile aliens only takes 3 days because of their superior electronic warfare capabilities. Shameless self-slashvertising for anyone who is interested and can read German (sorry, no English!): Invasion der Ausserirdischen in Berlin-Mitte.
Well, I've read plenty of military fiction that will sufficiently stupid for the GP. I specifically recommend Out of the Dark by David Weber, because it combines military fiction with vampire novels.
Sounds like one of those deliberately instigating troll posts to me...
The point is that if it's in a reputable medium (as opposed to Fox news or CNN), then it's probably not fake.
Don't be stupid, the media want to make money and sell their news. Besides, even if the media manipulated video for propaganda use, then having tens of thousands of additional lunatics manipulate videos in their mom's basement won't do any good either.
It's not hard to block scripts and nobody forces me to visit their website. I was merely interested in the legal situation in the case when the mining is done without explicit consent, since using someone else's resources for profit without consent seems legally problematic. With explicit consent there shouldn't be much of a problem.
First, an ad blocker can and will block such scripts, too. Second, they are using someone else's resources without their consent. Is this legal? Or wire fraud?
If it didn't influence shit then you and the rest of the US of A wouldn't talk about it all the time, like e.g. now here. According to the reports they wanted to divide your nation. Well, if that was their goal then they have been tremendously successful (judging from the posts on /.)
I haven't noticed this behavior yet and don't use any apps on my new machine. (Since it's new, it comes with Win 10. Of course, I'm using Linux for work.)
Do the apps run in the background if I never open them and use Classic menu? Do they show notifications if I turn notifications off?
The discussion in this subthread was not about the article but about adopting DST for the whole year. Read the context before hitting the reply button.
No comprehension problems here, but I have to admit you and a few others don't particularly shine with their intelligence and wittiness in this thread. Shifting the clock by one hour is really not rocket science. My employer won't change my work schedule because you say so, and neither does my girlfriend's employer or just about every other one you can imagine. Having more flexible work schedules is all fine if you actually have them. But no, child care and TV and radio and hospitals won't change all of their schedules because you or I think it's better.
Meanwhile, with DST people can enjoy longer sun in the evenings instead of sleeping while the sun shines an hour earlier in the morning.
Now if you personally prefer winter time, fine - just say so. I don't. I prefer to have longer sun in the evenings. Got it? Or do you still prefer to pretend to be stupid?
An extra hour of light in the morning before you get to work is useless to most people. They want to have an extra hour of sunlight after work. Life has also generally shifted from early morning hours to staying awake longer in the evenings. It's not unreasonable to assume that most people upon sincere reflection would prefer to have DST for the whole of the year, i.e., have their time zone shifted +1 and getting rid of DST.
The OP was an idiot in the sense of stubbornly insisting on a point instead of just admitting that he was mistaken, because he pointed out in a fairly smartass way the obvious fact that the hours on the clock are an arbitrary convention, thereby missing the whole point of DST, which is exactly that. The hours on the clock are an arbitrary binding convention, so if you want to change the relation of society as a whole to the daylight hours, then for Christ's sake adjust the clock rather than changing all time tables in all professions and all areas of life. What I hate about discussions like this is that so many people assume in them that the original inventors "didn't get it" while not really understanding what they're talking about themselves. Just check how many people in this thread erroneously believe that DST is winter time rather than summer time. True, it's debatable whether DST has fulfilled its original purpose of saving energy in light of the oil crisis, but at least the inventors of DST did understand the overall purpose of adjusting the clock - more than you or the OP, apparently. Sorry if that hurts your feelings.
Now regarding your other suggestion of flexible time tables for everyone in every profession and every area of life. It's a utopian and illusory idea and I personally believe the disadvantages would far outweigh the advantages, but in any case it has nothing to do with a discussion of DST.
Without DST you'd have less light in the evenings in the summer, and the same bleak dark winter days that you already complain about in the winter.
Because spare time BEFORE you start your daily work is much the same as the spare time in daylight you get AFTER you've come home from work... well, maybe for you, but not for me.